What is it about puppets that charm, disarm, and delight? Is it, as Heinrich von Kleist said in his seminal essay "On the Marionette Theater," that puppets "lack [the] self-consciousness" of humans and are therefore capable of helping us to access our purest emotions, of helping us move beyond the blocks keeping us from acting with clarity and purposefulness? Is it that puppetry offers permission for radicalism of po…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PM on July 18, 2013